Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-14
COMMUNICATfONs.
The Proposed New Cemetery.

The RfOpOseO NC" tcHucteIt.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 After reading various notices by various correspondents of new cemetery enterprise | decided to write few lines on the subject
 and do so now, for thinking people to con
 slider.
 It must be remembered that the west part
 of the s'Green" was once 8 cemetery, and
 that within it's dead lines now stand the
 Center church and the State House. Beneath
 the church now stands erect ever so many
 monuments, and atnohg them the mon
 grandfather, the Rev. Joseph Moves, who
 was the pastor of the Center church for forty
 two years and his portrait in oil, by the late
 portrait painter, Hotchkiss, I loaned to and now hangs on the walls of the Historical so ciety. So that we have now in reality a
 cemetery collection of the dead in the very heart of the city, though no monuments are left standing but those beneath the floor of the Center church.
 Besides this cemetery we have the Grove street cemetery, enclosed by iron and stone fences-te last for ages-and the dead are being deposited there every week or month Now, though this plotted and enclosed place of the dead is surrounded by houses, far, far l beyond it's present location; so that in the very center of the present city of New Haven we have two large cemeteries, one of which | is smouldering in bygone years and the l other is in full use to-day, and lots in 1t are | bought and sold in the market the same as | in by-gone years, and we have two on the 1 road to Westville and two more at the west
 end of the city. And now, when few gen | tlemen who look upon ''the new eeme- | tery," occupying what was known | as Nathan Peck's woods, as too l near for the Peck woods cemetery l is already city of the dead and Is surround ed on three sides by the homesteads of the ia deemed too near, though it is at least three l miles from the City Hall.
 There is reason in all things, and among the reasons which ought to have influenced the south end of Donald G. Mitchell's farm as proper place were, no doubt: First-That it is ust where it can stay for all time and not be crowded out by the liv ing, for no matter what, the living will crowd out the dead; that is the fate of progress.
 second-It is just south of the great cen- tral artery of the city, viz, Chapel street three miles from the City Hall-and lies s1oping to the east and can be reached by an extension of the horse railroad; and what is
 more, backs up upon Maltby Park, ending in line of rocks beyond which nothing will ever be built
 Talk about the gases and other followings of the dead, flowing or penetrating lands be- yond is as much stark nonsense as when a certain learned man in New Haven told the people in one of the newspapers that 'sWin- l tergreen Lake" on West Rock would never | fill, and if it did it would evaporate before the next rain.
 It is the old chronic disease of New Haven
 returned-'sto oppose" anything. James | Brewster opposed and abused, so was Harvey Hoadley, because somebody thought ! they would encroach upon the mud line. Sc
 with Sargent, who has been opposed from the day he entered New Ha
 ven, and myself, when fitting ur | bookstore handsomely forty years ago.
 and afterwards in building the Insurance | building of granite, though I had caused the disappearance of more old wood rookeries | and the erection of more fine buildings ir l their places than any man who ever lived 1T | New Haven.
 | Besides all this, where else are eight, l acres of land to be bought! except we gc
 where the living will not and where tn | dead will feel lonely.
 Whoever opposes such place as tha
 designated on elk Marvel's" farm hat
 better get up plan for clearing the Greer of the dead and to remove the Grove stree
 cemetery and fence in up to the atmospheri line the four cemeteries in the western par
 of the city. and after that pass vote to sel
 the Derby railroad, provided the purchase
 takes it away or makes depot of the Stat 1 House. B. MOVES.